Wednesday, March 9, 2016

The RGM has insomnia.

Blogger shows me the ten most viewed posts of the past day, week, month, etc. Usually this is a list of the most recent posts, but occasionally it includes a random older post. Why, for example were there 40 views of this yesterday?

11 comments:

a. The site is dying (always).b. The duck.c. I don’t know, but you’ll probably get mail complaining about it.d. Throughout history, there have been many examples of things that cannot easily be explained.

Oh, I'd say it was more than mere attempt. Throughout the entirety of past history, there have been a great many of examples of times where, as regards the involvement of writing such as a student, when the use of certain particular constructs is incorporated into how the syntactic phrasing is effected, the end result is the same but different in it's own unique kind of way.

I was making a sort of personal homage to an English teacher of mine in High School who took one of my papers up to me and said "What the fuck are these?" Pointing to parentheses.

"Uh... Parentheticals?"

"What the fuck? Are they some kind of bizarre viking rune? I hate them. I don't ever want to see them on any paper ever again. It's called commas. Not these... fucking Wiccan incantations you call 'parentheticals'."

What Was This?

College Misery was a dysfunctional group blog where professors got the chance to release some of the frustration that built up while tending to student snowflakes, helicopter parents, money mad Deans, envious colleagues, and churlish chairpeople.

Our parent site, Rate Your Students, started in 2005, and we continued that mission beginning in 2010. Ben at Academic Water Torture and Kimmie at The Apoplectic Mizery Maker both ran support blogs during periods when this blog had died.